What are some best practices for implementing a pagination feature in PHP without using MySQL?

When implementing pagination in PHP without using MySQL, you can achieve this by using arrays to store your data and then utilizing PHP functions like array_slice to display a subset of the data on each page. You can also use URL parameters to track the current page number and adjust the displayed data accordingly.

<?php

// Sample data array
$data = range(1, 100);

// Number of items to display per page
$items_per_page = 10;

// Get current page number from URL parameter
$page = isset($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 1;

// Calculate the starting index for the slice
$start = ($page - 1) * $items_per_page;

// Get a subset of data to display on the current page
$data_subset = array_slice($data, $start, $items_per_page);

// Display the data
foreach ($data_subset as $item) {
    echo $item . "<br>";
}

// Pagination links
$total_pages = ceil(count($data) / $items_per_page);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) {
    echo "<a href='?page=$i'>$i</a> ";
}

?>